This is a plugin I’ve been working on for a month or two, so I could replace the emojis in my note titles with a more elegant icon system. It’s turned out pretty well! Iconic is a desktop & mobile friendly plugin for customizing a variety of icons around your vault.
You can use this plugin in lots of ways; native icons and emojis are supported everywhere, you can adjust their size and clickability, their colors can match the palette of your CSS theme, and you can even disable colors on-hover if your theme has colored highlights like Catppuccin.
This might be on the community browser in a week or two if it gets approved. Since this is my very first plugin release, I’d love to know what people think of the interface and usability. Don’t pull any punches
Thank you, love the way this is implemented. Very slick and easy UI. Some options not covered by Iconize. I’m already in love with my color coded bookmarks and properties.
Question, is it at all possible to insert icons into properties fields themselves? The most obvious use case is rating stars, but I can see myself using it more widely if it is possible.
Hey, thanks for your feedback! There isn’t a way to insert icons inside properties at the moment… but I do really like that suggestion. I’ve started a feature request to keep it on the roadmap.
This might be something I’ll look into closer to version 1.2 or 1.3?
Patch 1.0.10 is out today, and completes the support for bookmark icons:
New features:
Heading bookmarks: now support custom icons
Block bookmarks: now support custom icons
Search bookmarks: now support custom icons
Graph bookmarks: now support custom icons
Bugfixes:
Icon picker: the Reset color button no longer shoves the color bubble aside (on desktop & tablet)
Tabs added by plugins: now display their own default icon, instead of a 📄 icon
Icons added by plugins:
now appear in search results more reliably
now change colors more reliably
Note: Iconic now controls icon colors using style instead of stroke , so depending on your theme/snippets, there could be new edge cases where the colors don’t work. Report any compatibility issues :]
You can update to 1.0.11 today if you’ve paid your internet bill. This update adds some quality-of-life features around the UI, like showing icons on ribbon-related menus, the dropdown tab list, and most drag-and-drop tooltips:
Double patch notes today, because I was pretty sick last week.
These are the last updates I wanted to share before Iconic 1.1 is ready sometime in October. All of the basic features are complete now, but there’s a ton of new functionality coming to this plugin soon. Please look forward to it
1.0.12
New features:
Folders just got a lot more customizable!
Folder icons now appear after their folder arrows by default
You can toggle the original behavior by enabling Minimal folder icons
There’s a new Show all folder icons setting
Folders with default icons visually open when you expand them
Icon picker
Icon search results are slightly larger
Icon and emoji names now start with capital letters
Selected colors are now indicated with a checkmark
Tablets: The Remove and Emojis buttons are now on the same row
Miscellaneous
Added a Colorless drag setting, for themes where icon colors blend poorly with their drag ghosts
Localized the menus for English (GB)
Bugfixes:
Virtually all of the “black icon” color bugs in various themes are now fixed
Colorless settings are working again — forgot to test them after the color updates in 1.0.10
1.0.13
Bugfixes:
Folder icons in RTL languages: are now correctly reversed
Invalid colors in external CSS: should no longer break the icon picker
Theme support:
Verified compatibility with the top 50 community themes, and added special tweaks for 15 of them to help display icons & colors correctly (mainly in the Files and Bookmarks tabs):
Big thankies to some diligent bug reporters for giving 1.0.14 a reason to exist. Always feel free to hit up the issues list and make some noise if any part of this plugin seems broken to you.
Bugfixes:
Tabs: File tabs should no longer have duplicate items on their context menus
Properties: Properties with uppercase letters will no longer break the icon picker
Visual fixes:
Icon picker: Color tooltips now change in real time when you scroll through colors with a mouse or keyboard
Icon picker (on phones): The Remove and Emojis buttons are now on the same row at the bottom, and a Cancel button has been added on top to match the Edit Bookmark dialog
Icon picker (on tablets): The Emojis button now sticks to the right side (or the left side in RTL languages)
i mean that would bee a good idea an function that allows create a buttom with scripts, i have an routines that make push of my vault on the taskscheduler on windows, would be nice if i could turn theis script into button on lateral menu
My only frustration is with the search of the icons themselves. Below, some somplains with ideas that crossed my mind to solve them.
It would be great to be able to see more icons at a time, for instance by having several rows of them and/or by being able to expand the “change emoji” window.
Having to click on the button “icons” or “emojis” to switch is tedious, having two search bars or search them all at once would be nicer.
Maybe having some icons/emojis or the lucide categories shown right away? I often go to lucide looking for the right one and then come back to the plugin to enter the keywords.
I hope this feedback helps in any way, thanks for the plugin!
I can’t find how to edit a message so I’ll just add that it would be nice to be able to add custom packs other than lucide. I prefer Iconic over iconize but it is one of the rare things I’m missing from it.
Hi Skyy! Not super sure what you mean by this, but I don’t think Iconic will support a feature like button scripting any time soon. Meta Bind might be what you’re looking for instead?
I’ve been thinking about adding multiple rows to the icon picker - I just left it on the backburner while there were still bigger problems to fix. Planning to revisit this very soon.
These are great ideas! The icon picker always opens up in icon mode if you’re customizing an icon, and emoji mode if you’re customizing an emoji. I’ll include a third “mixed mode” in the next update, and a new setting to choose which of those three you prefer by default :]
That one’s a killer feature for Iconize, yeah. Custom packs are actually planned as a major update in the far future, but I’m queuing them behind several other big features, like customizable tags, automatic icon rules, colored folder backgrounds, etc. Hopefully it’ll be possible next year.
Not every icon at once, sorry! I haven’t designed a sane way to display that yet ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)
You can bump the number of search results to something huge and try searching for single letters? That’ll show you up to 300 at once. There’s also the Lucide website which has a really good search engine, but unfortunately it includes icons that Obsidian hasn’t been updated with yet.
Hope this helps, and I’ve added it to the issues list
Like a bad haiku, with too many syllables, 1.0.15 is here to patch out a few more bugs before Halloween comes around. I think it has some actual features in it, too?
New features:
The ribbon menu on phones now supports customized icons!
You can edit them all from Settings > Appearance > Ribbon menu configuration
If you prefer a neutral-colored quick access button, use the new Colorless ribbon button setting
For people who manually install their plugins, Iconic now includes a convenient ZIP file with every new release
(It’s the one labelled iconic-1.0.15.zip)
Bugfixes:
1.7 only: Files inside folders are loading their icons correctly again
1.7 only: Background tabs are loading their icons correctly again
Phones only: Icons in Ribbon menu configuration no longer vanish when you change your quick access button
Visual fixes:
Icon picker: “Grey” now has the correct spelling for en-GB language users
Icon picker: Some words in icon names are now capitalized more logically, like 3D, TV, and X
Icon picker: The Icons / Emojis button now changes its tooltip instantly when clicked
You’re the people motivating these updates, so thank you!
pretty sick 
last week.
